NY: Carsten Seiffarth, director of the sound art gallery singuhr – hoergalerie, at the Goethe-Institut New York

The Goethe-Institut New York presents Carsten Seiffarth, director of the sound art gallery singuhr – hoergalerie (Berlin), as the first guest of the Unsound Lounge 2011 series. Seiffarth will commence the series with the talk Sound Art in Berlin
on April 20, 7pm.

Sound art has established itself as a new art form, existing somewhere between [...]

NY: Max Weber Conference at Deutsches Haus NYU

Deutsches Haus at New York University presents the Max Weber Chair Conference 2011 from April 7th to April 8th.
With its 27 member states, the European Union is a major player in the globalized economy. Politically, however, the EU has yet to realize a common identity in the post-Cold War context.
The Euro-polity is currently undergoing major [...]

Air Berlin Concludes Codeshare Agreements with American Airlines

After Air Berlin, Germany’s second largest airline and the fifth largest in Europe, joined the worldwide airline alliance “OneWorld”, it announced shortly afterwards the conclusion of new codeshare agreements with American Airlines and Finnair.  Thanks to these new agreements, US travelers will have the possibility to book American Airline flights with convenient connections through New [...]

To Save and Project Films at MOMA

Included in the 8th Annual International Festival of Film Preservation at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art were numerous “newly restored masterworks and rediscoveries” by European filmmakers such as Patrice Chéreau, Abel Gance, Volker Schlöndorff, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Luchino Visconti. The latter’s 1963 masterpiece, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard,), opened the showcase in [...]

To Save and Project: Filmschutz in New York

Während des soeben abgelaufenen, achten internationalen Festivals des Filmschutzes zeigte das New Yorker Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) auch den digitalen Director’s Cut von „Die Blechtrommel“ (1979). Volker Schlöndorff hatte die 164 Minuten lange Fassung seines mit Auslands-Oscar und Goldener Palme ausgezeichneten Films persönlich vorgestellt.
Aus Österreich kam „Langsamer Sommer“ („Slow Summer“, 1976) des in Kanada [...]

“Nuremberg” in New York, documentary to premiere at film festival

The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 48th New York Film Festival (FSLC, NYFF), “the essential showcase of the latest and best in American and international cinema,” will complement this years previously announced festival selections (for our German language report, click here) with a series of events and additional programs. “The Masterworks and Special Events at [...]

Counter Space: Frankfurter Küche in New York

From September 15, 2010, through March 14, 2011, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City (http://moma.org) presents “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen.” Drawing extensively from MoMA’s collections of design objects, photography, film, prints, drawings and paintings, Counter Space “examines the kitchen and its continual redesign as a barometer of changing ideologies [...]

“A Film Unfinished” finally opens and sheds light on Nazi propaganda

On August 18, Oscilloscope Pictures opens Yael Hersonski’s “A Film Unfinished” in New York at the Film Forum (209 W. Houston Street) and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas (1886 Broadway), on August 20th the documentary premieres in Los Angeles at The Laemmle Royal and in Encino, California at Laemmle Town Center. This will be followed by a national run of the [...]

Streit um Freigabe für “A Film Unfinished”

R-Freigabe für Holocaust
Der deutsch-israelische Dokumentarfilm “A Film Unfinished” (U.S.-Start: 18. August, for locations, please read our English-language announcement) konnte auch im Widerspruchverfahren nicht die von Filmemacher Yael Hersonski und Verleih Oscilloscope Laboratories gewünschte reduzierte Freigabe erhalten. Mit 12 zu drei Stimmen beließ es die Motion Picture Assoc. of America bei „Restricted“ (Children Under 17 Require [...]

Kino! 2010 Opens at MoMA in New York

On April 21, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City marked its 31st annual survey of recent German cinema with Kino! 2010. Although writer-director Margarethe von Trotta could not attend the opening, leading lady Barbara Sukowa was greeted with equal enthusiasm by the packed house. In Vision, Sukowa plays Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine [...]

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